Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 62, Issue 1 , Pages 54-57 , January 2009

Variability in diagnostic accuracy can be estimated using simple population weighting

  • Jonas Björk

      Affiliations

    • Competence Centre for Clinical Research, Lund University Hospital, Barngatan 2, SE-221 85 Lund, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +46-46177930; fax: +46-46176085.
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  • Anders Grubb

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Chemistry, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
    • ,
  • Ulf Nyman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Trelleborg Hospital, Trelleborg, Sweden

,Accepted 1 September 2008.

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PII: S0895-4356(08)00258-8

doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2008.09.001

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 62, Issue 1 , Pages 54-57 , January 2009

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